Citizens for Justice and Peace
CJP KHOJ celebrates teacher’s day Khoj Educational Program
10-Sep-2019
CJP’s Khoj is a secular educational program that teaches constitutional values to children in different schools. This is a Teachers’ Day celebration organised by Khoj in a school in Mumbai. Related: An Introduction to KHOJ KHOJ: Self Portrait and Problem Solving KHOJ: Maps and Personal Histories KHOJ: Rights and Duties
KHOJ: Rights and Duties CJP's Educational Program for a Plural India
28-May-2019
This session is expected to evolve a lasting understanding and grasp within young minds of what his/her rights are as an individual. Our Rights and Teachers Rights, Rights and Responsibilities and Rights and Duties. A critical part of the discussions involve discussing those rights. This module consists of three exercises. Each child is given this…
Teesta Setalvad Case: Supreme Court Expresses Astonishment at Gujarat High Court Judgement NewsClick
14-Mar-2019
The apex court bench issued notice, stayed the high court’s observations, and directed tagging of the case with an earlier and related matter. “How could the Gujarat High Court simultaneously grant anticipatory bail, and allow the police the liberty to take activists Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand into custody?” an astounded CJI Ranjan Gogoi-led bench…
Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand get Anticipatory Bail in Khoj Case Truth wins as Guj HC provides relief to Human Rights Defenders
08-Feb-2019
In a huge victory, the Gujarat High Court has granted anticipatory bail to journalist, educationist and human rights activist Teesta Setalvad in connection to a case of alleged misappropriation of funds obtained by her education NGO Khoj from the Ministry of Human Resources Development under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. The court also granted bail to her…
Teesta Setalvad, Javed Anand Granted Relief From Arrest The Wire
08-Feb-2019
The Gujarat high court has asked the two human-rights activists to cooperate and appear when summoned on the embezzlement case against them. New Delhi: The Gujarat high court allowed anticipatory bail pleas of Mumbai-based activists Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand on Friday. The two are facing arrest in a case of embezzlement of Central government funds.…
KHOJ: Maps and Personal Histories CJP's Educational Program for a Plural India
18-Dec-2018
This is one of KHOJ’s teaching modules. Each child in the class is given one map and the session involves dotting specific locations on the map that are the spots that have impact on the child’s life in and around his/hers home, school family and community life. Find out more in this video.
KHOJ: Self Portrait and Problem Solving CJP's Educational Program for a Plural India
29-Oct-2018
This introductory KHOJ module aims at drawing out the emotional world of a child. Through sketches and words that describe those images and emotions we ask them to draw things they like and dislike. Through which the teacher gleans what situations make the young angry, hurt, lonely, happy or sad. To know more about this…
An Introduction to KHOJ CJP's Educational Program for a Plural India
19-Oct-2018
KHOJ is an Education for a Plural India movement. It is an innovative educational approach, which has been evolved over 20 years of actual engagement inside classrooms with thousands of school students in the 10-13 year age group (Std. V – Std. VII). KHOJ is based on the premise that the young are as capable of…
KHOJ: Hate Hurts, Harmony Works What is KHOJ?
25-Jul-2018
You have probably heard rumours about KHOJ, an education NGO run by activist and journalist Teesta Setalvad. But, what is KHOJ? Watch this video to learn all about our initiatives as well as our response to a whole host of false allegations. You will discover that KHOJ is not teaching children to be anti national.…
Teesta Setalvad all set to face yet another Challenge Anticipatory Bail Application to come up for hearing in Gujarat HC
13-Jul-2018
In the latest in the long drawn out vendetta campaign against Human Rights Defenders Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand, the Gujarat High Court heard the matter of their anticipatory bail applications in a false case on July 13, 2018. The case was adjourned the next date of hearing is August 10, 2018. The stay on arrest was also extended to…